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After doing some research on my GA accounts, I can confirm Avinash’s statement. While the GA interface was not available, data collection was just fine. I can live with reporting interface issues, but data collection issues would have been lethal. This is good for Google Analytics and good for its clients, although I would like a bit more transparency on why it worked, so I can be more confident next time Google runs afoul with the authorities in China.
From what I can see, the tracking image call goes to google-analytics.com, not to analytics.google.com, which might have prevented the blocking (which focussed in google.com). Also many of my clients use local instances of the GA tracking code, to improve performance, which can provide some protection as well.
I am looking forward to hearing more details from Google.
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